How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKEI must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
More William Blake Quotes
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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Without Contraries is no Progression.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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We become what we behold.
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For every thing that lives is Holy.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
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